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Cafeteria Brain Worms – Short Story
“There’s no such thing as a recession. My dad says it’s made up.” Barry interrupted, his arms flailing so everyone in the cafeteria could see. “The school’s just trying to save money by using squirrel meat. Or maybe even human meat. Shoot, people are eating the cicadas for snacks…Eww, dude.” He lifted up his tray…
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Ocean Songs – Short Story
“Pirates.” Cari said out loud, not having heard her voice in so long. It sounded rough and dry but it was better than the constant sound of water hitting the cargo container and now the mysterious sound that started a few days ago and wouldn’t stop. “Or a naval ship.” She said, giving a breath…
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Signals from the Fading Vale – Part 7
The television had been quiet for several hours. But Cody barely noticed. His eyes were closed tight most of that time, trying to think of other things to drown out the loud groaning and creaking coming from the attic door. It started out as wind, the same type that pushed him back from Aaron when…
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Mindshatter – Short Story
It was coming again. That darkness, that fading blur in his eyes, that tingling sensation that felt like the beginning of a migraine. But it wasn’t a migraine. It was much worse. Migraines, even ocular migraines that impaired his vision, didn’t rip apart the fabric of reality, cause him to blackout, and lose track of…
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Playing It Cool – Short Story
The clouds were gray and the ground was barren with sand and the bodies of the dead. It was an endless mass of corpses stretching over the horizon, each face smiling with glee, each warrior happy to die fighting each other or a robotic army or horde of fantastical creatures or another nondescript enemy, mostly…
Karl Kirkpatrick 